Improved boot and shoe-cleaner



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'WILLIAM H. SMITH, or'NnWronr, RHODE ISLAND.

` Letters .Iaten-t No. 97,716, dated December@ 1.869.

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The Schedule reterred to in these Letters Patent ands, making part ofthe same. -v

To'all 'whom tt may concern;-

` ne a known that I, WILLIAM H. 'sM1TH,-0f Newport, in the .eountylofNewport, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new'and improvedBoot and j, Shoe-Cleaner; and I do hereby declare that the fol- I lowingis a full, clear, andexact description thereof, hadto the accompanyingdrawings,

reference being lnakingpart of this specification', in which- Figure 1is a perspective vewof the improved boot and shoe-cleanerr Figure 2 isatop view of the cleaner, with a portionotv one of the rotarybrush-shields broken away,

` Similar letters ot' .reference indicate corresponding parts in` bothfigures. y

The nature of my invention consistsv First, iiI combining, with `arotary corrugated drum,-

" two upright rotary brush-drums, in such manner,.that

in .the act of drawing the foot over the corrugated drum, this drumwillturn, and at the same time, give rotary motion to the upright brushes,which willrclean the sides of the ,boot `or shoe, as will be hereinafterexplained.

Second, in colnbining, with said rotary vdrum and rotary brushes, a`scraperand a fixed brusl1,which will' `clean the bottom` of a bootwhile the rotarybrushes clean thesides thereof, .as will be Vhereinafterex pla-ined.

ATo enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I willdescribe its construction andV op- Iirtheacconlpanyingdrawings- AAfrepresents thenbase-plate of `.the chamber, which `is flat onvtop, andpreferably madeofcast-metal.

B represents a rotary cylinder, which hasV itsperiphery corrugated,'sei-rated, or roughened, inv any suitable manner, and `is supported latboth' ends by short forked standards b, rising ,perpendicular 'from ,andsecured rigidly to the base-plate A.

On thcextr'emit-ies of the shaftA of cylinder AB, lievelled-spur wheelsgfg are keyed, which 'engage with 'corresponding Wheels g', on verticalshafts e.

The shafts e have their bearings in `the o'sets of `standards l), andcarry brush-drulns E, arranged in such relation to theeuds of thecylinder B, that when a person draws his foot across the latter, androtates it, the brushes E E will'be rotated, and will clean the sidesofthe boot. l s V On onev side of the cylinder B, and secured fast to4the bed A, is a convex brush, D, and onthe opposite side of saidcylinder is a scraper-plate. O, which' is also secured fast to the bedA. 1

It will be seen. that during the act of drawing the foot over cylinderB, and .brushing the side por sides of the boot,l the scraper G andbrush D will clean ythe bottom of the boot.

I am aware that laterally-movable elastic or yielding brushes,ibn-cleaning the sides of a boot, have been combined with brushes andscrapersfor cleanf ing the bottom of a boot, and I lay no claim to suchcombination; nor dol claim, broadly, the use of cylindrical rotarybrushes.; I have combined a corrugated orroughened cylinder o r driverwith rotarybrushes,

in such manner that the act of' moving the foot beetweeu the rotary brushes upon the said driver, causes the brushes to rotate. l. Havingldescribed my invention,4

What I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The upright rotary. brushes, geared andv combined with thecylindrical corrugated driver B, as and for the .purposes described. s

2,. The scraper O, and brush D, in combination with brushes E, and theirdriving-cylinder B,as described..

. WM. H. SMITH. Witnesses ,STANTON PEGKHAM,

WM. J. H. OUTMAN.

